't look at the camera. three, he didn't answer anything that romney threw at him. and four,hisenergylevelwas just in the negative range. felt like he was in the middle of the black hole sucking all the energy out of him. it was just a bad performance. i was kind of amused by watching later on some of the pund ants who was basically having a seizure in the zl84suñ screaming about how obama needs to watch ms nbc. the fact is romney gave the president so many opportunities to just hit him hard and hit him back and the president looked at the call third strike each time. >> romney had a lot to gain from this debate. did the president have a lot to lose or is this okay? this performance? >> if you want to look at the few silver linings and there are very few. the president didn't make any major gasps. there is nothing memorable about anything he said. romney came in with everything to gain. obama had everything to lose. but he was essentially playing the type of old defense everyone knows doesn't do anything to prevent you from winning. so he thought he was up by a touchdown and decide